quote:It won't get a second viewing from me. I don't feel I should need to research a movie to enjoy it. I think I just had too high of expectations. I was beyond jacked for this movie.

I felt the same way.

I think it was actually cokes that linked a video on here in a previous discussion that gave someone's interpetation of the film. I don't know if it's just because I really wanted to like the movie or if things just flew over my head during the first viewing, but that video made me give it another shot.

re: After giving Promet[h]eus a shot on cable(Posted by Peazey on 4/10/13 at 8:25 am to SpqrTiger)

quote:I liked Prometheus. I don't see what was so hard to understand about it.

This attitude that the reason a person disliked it because he didn't understand it is pompous, innaccurate, and annoying to the extreme. It was a pretty movie. I also don't mind that there are questions left unanswered.

I HATED HATED HATED the storytelling. IMO it was disjointed. The characters actions were over the top which I didn't think fit the film, and several of the actions of the characters did not make sense. Add in a superfluous character in Theron and a lame as shite Pierce and you have a very disapointing film.

I wanted to like it. I really did. Science fiction is my first literary and cinematic love. I just can't.

ETA: I am aware that this is supposed to be part one of a trilogy. I plan on giving the second a chance, but if I dislike it as much as the first then I am just going to give up on them.

re: After giving Promet[h]eus a shot on cable(Posted by Peazey on 4/10/13 at 8:55 am to manwich)

Bill Paxton was amazing in that role. He fit right in. He may have been a character, but his actions and personality made sense to me.

I don't feel like getting too into it right now. I have done it before. However there were fairly major events in the movie where I could not at all tell what the characters were trying to accomplish. There was no, in my mind, reasonable motivation. Things just happened because the movie makers wanted them to happen without reasonable cause. It was sloppy film making.

re: After giving Promet[h]eus a shot on cable(Posted by Peazey on 4/10/13 at 9:46 am to manwich)

I didn't say he deserved an oscar. I said he was amazing. Fun. Fits the archetype of crazy, bad arse soldier. Do you think it would have been better if Daniel Day Lewis played that role? Yeah, you know what. You are right. We really needed a great dramatic actor to bring the film Aliens to life properly.

re: After giving Promet[h]eus a shot on cable(Posted by alajones on 4/10/13 at 10:08 am to Fox Mulder)

quote:She was unecessary and shouldn't have been in the movie. Guy pierce, yeah bad call. Hated the shoehorned alien

Don't mind the lingering questions about the engineers, hate how the ooz functioned inconsistently without a clear explanation as to what the frick it is and does

Still, visual flair. High production values, Michael Fassbender gives a great performance. Noomi rapace is excellent and all of the people shitting on it will probably say that they like John carter, immediately invalidating their opinion on science fiction.

If you love late 70s early 80s sci fi, then it's awesome

Pretty much agree with all of this. It was a good movie experience for me. Nothing more. Far from awful.

You may not have liked it. Lets just work under the premise it isn't good, but that's a bit over the top and makes you sound stupid. It's visually exceptional and has a great performance within... Hardly pig slop.